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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 6 - Issue 1 | January 2016

InNews
Much More
From Vizrt
NOR / ESP: Spanish satellite
broadcaster Canal+ is using Vizrt's
tools to control content played on
its 45 square metre RPG video wall,
used on its popular show, Mucho
Más Deporte (Much More Sports).
The wall is made up of a left, a
right, and a video floor.
The solution uses a Viz Multiplay
video wall control system to
support three output channels that
trigger a single Viz Engine realtime rendering and compositing
system.

I-MOVIX Adds
Remote IP
BEL: I-MOVIX has added IP-based
remote production capabilities
to its range of ultra slow-motion
camera systems.
The upgrade, which requires
no additional hardware, allows
production teams to integrate
I-MOVIX cameras into their
network to manage and control
them from a central media centre.
The remote operation capability
can be quickly configured from
the Operational Control Panel and
from the Slow-Motion remote webbased interface, which can be used
to operate each I-MOVIX camera
remotely.

Redrock
Mini Rigs
USA: Redrock Micro has announced
new supports for shooting video
with mirrorless cameras.
Mini Rigs make shooting great
video easy, with three popular
configurations: Mini Handheld Rig
for Fast and Stable Run-and-Gun;
Mini Shoulder Rig for comfortable
all-day shooting; and Mini Studio
Rig provide classic shooting style
using tripod or dolly.
The Mini Rigs cover most common
shooting styles, support options to
attach camera-top accessories, and
expansion possibilities.

The Museum Channel
Deploys Harmonic
F

rance's Secom media group has
deployed Harmonic technology
to enable playout for The Museum
Channel.
"In migrating to a new playout
solution for The Museum Channel,
we required an economical and
stable solution that would enable
fully automated scheduled playout
with minimal operator intervention,"
said Vincent Charley, Chief Operating
Officer at The Museum Channel.
The
Harmonic
infrastructure
supports efficient ingest of clips and
content via Harmonic's Spectrum
MediaDeck system and branded HD
playout via Harmonic's Polaris Play
automation software.

The system runs three
fully branded HD channels:
an international feed of The
Museum Channel with French,
English and Russian audio
tracks; a Russian feed of The
Museum Channel with Cyrillic
script and a Russian audio
track; and My Nature TV.
Coupled with the Spectrum
MediaDeck and its highdensity
I/O
capabilities,
integrated file services, and native
codec and file wrapper support, Polaris
Play simplifies The Museum Channel's
end-to-end workflow.
The infrastructure also offers Secom
the option of launching a fourth HD

Secom opts for Harmonic playout kit

channel with a low-cost automation
control license.
Secom uses a Spectrum MediaDeck
system to support its local TV news
channel Grand Lille TV.

Vantage At Heart Of Operations
T

elestream has announced the
successful implementation of
a major transcode farm, file-based
content ingest platform and intelligent
workflow automation system at
Jerusalem-based broadcaster, Channel
2 News.

The main control room at Channel 2 News

Managed by leading Israeli systems
integrator, Draco, the project sees the
broadcaster moving away from tapebased production systems to a digital
tapeless technology environment.
Initially, Draco specified Telestream
Vantage as the central transcode
farm for all of Channel
2's
newsgathering
needs. Later the project
evolved as Vantage was
defined as the main
production
workflow
platform for the news
broadcaster's
Arab
Desk.
For this application
a
combination
of
Telestream
Pipeline,
Telestream
Vantage
Transcode,
Check-in

to Avid Interplay and Avid storage
systems provide Channel 2 News with a
robust newsgathering platform.
A major investment in digital filebased production technology for
Channel 2, Draco has developed
a production environment that
comprises asset management, an
advanced news production system.
This includes 20 suites of postproduction resources, server-based
playout, two foreign desks with 22
acquisition channels and a transcode
farm supporting ultra-fast news
turnaround workflows.
Avid's newsroom technology is
central to Channel 2's new digital
production system while Telestream
Vantage provides the primary
ingest channel into this file-based
environment.
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